I had just finished more than a dozen hours, and the flight across the Pacific Ocean was very tiring.

After arriving at the hotel room, Iwata Satoshi felt a deep sleepiness, which he had not felt when he was in the car before.

He was lying on the bed, although he wanted to sleep, but he didn't know how, no matter what, he couldn't fall asleep successfully, there were countless chaotic thoughts in his mind, and he didn't know what the reason was, he was obviously very tired.

So, he lay on his back on the bed, his eyes looking at the ceiling, reminiscing about some of his past in the hope that it would help him sleep.

In fact, it is very accidental and inevitable that he was able to embark on the path of game development, but more importantly, this was a choice he made in the first place, do you regret it? Satoshi Iwata questioned himself like this, and then he shook his head silently, although his career seems to be in trouble now, but regret, he will never regret it, because he really loves this industry.

When did you become interested in game development?

Satoshi Iwata kept recalling in his mind: probably when he was in high school.

At that time, I had just come into contact with HP's computer HP-65 and became interested in programming, and after teaching myself programming, I sent my self-made games to HP, which shocked the other party, and even gave me a lot of unexpected gifts......

When he thought of the great achievements of his youth, Satoshi Iwata couldn't help but laugh.

And after that......

My first computer was a freshman in college.,I don't remember clearly.,It seems to be the PET-2001 model.,That's when he began to work hard to study programming.,Especially the assembly language of 6502.,It's a lot of things that I studied.,I didn't want to take the game as a lifelong career.,At that time, I just thought it was fun to make games.,But by chance, I knew the success of "Space Invaders".

to make it his life's work.

Thinking about it, Satoshi Iwata also smiled bitterly, talking about his work experience after graduation, he also used to have a very stiff relationship with his family.

After all, I'm from Hokkaido, not from the big cities of Tokyo and Osaka, so my family's acceptance of this new thing is not high, and when I decided to work at the HAL Research Institute after graduation and develop games, my father was furious with him when he learned about it, and he didn't say a word to them for half a year.

Now that I think about it, aren't they thinking about their own future?

If I hadn't chosen to go to the HAL Research Institute back then, but had chosen to go to some other big company, maybe I wouldn't have been trapped by so many things now, right?

But my work in HAL is also very smooth.,Except for the recent Nintendo selection to divest the game business.,At that time, because there were very few people who knew 6502 assembly,So,Since high school, I've studied 6502 assembly language.,I'm very important on it.,Responsible for a lot of important projects.,It's also very important.,Originally, Mr. Yamauchi Pu planned to officially turn the HAL Research Institute into a subsidiary of Nintendo.。

But alas......

Thinking about it, Iwata Satoshi also thought of the current situation of Yamauchi Pu, and couldn't help but sigh.

When a person begins to recall, it is usually easy to calm down, and once a person calms down, it is also easy to fall asleep, and Iwata Satoshi, who was still worrying about how he could not fall asleep, also fell asleep, after all, it is impossible for anyone who has experienced more than ten hours of flying across the Pacific Ocean not to be exhausted.

Mars Entertainment Headquarters.

Jester put down the phone, and the call was from the GDC organizing committee, telling him that Satoshi Iwata had arranged for him to stay at the hotel.

That's right, he was the one who invited Satoshi Iwata to attend GDC this time.

Speaking of which, this is an exception.

He was also very unintentional, when he asked Shigeru Miyamoto about the new progress of "Zelda", he inadvertently asked if there was a member of Satoshi Iwata who recruited those employees who were previously at Nintendo recruited by Shigeru Miyamoto.

Because in Jester's impression, Satoshi Iwata was born as a programmer, and he is also a producer, and he has also appeared in classic games like "Balloon Wars" on FC, so it should be very famous, but unfortunately, after Miyamoto Shigeru heard Jester's question, he thought a little, and then shook his head and replied, he hadn't heard of this character.

Then Jester thought about it carefully, and he understood, originally in history, the reason why Iwata Satoshi was very close to Miyamoto Shigeru's short breath was because when Miyamoto Shigeru was developing the superhorse, there were some problems in the program, and the people in Nintendo's headquarters had no way to solve it, and it happened that there was a programmer in the HAL Research Institute, who was very level for the 6502 assembly, and FC also used the 6502 CPU, so this is the intersection.

But in this world, Nintendo no longer has a superhorse.

Therefore, the butterfly wings in the dark are just like this, and the two who were originally friends have no friendship.

Then, after Jester asked people to investigate, he learned that the current Iwata Satoshi is still in the HAL Research Institute, and this game research institute invested by Nintendo is on the verge of closure, basically, there will be news in a few months at the latest.

Therefore, Jester asked the organizing committee to send this invitation to Iwata Satoshi, and he also wanted to have a good talk with Iwata Satoshi, and he hoped to get Iwata Satoshi as a cadre.

Because, Satoshi Iwata's achievements in the future are really remarkable, very remarkable.

At the most critical time for Nintendo, he took over the president's banner from the hands of the legendary president Yamauchi Pu, when Nintendo because of the NGC fiasco, so that the entire company's internal fighters and morale fell to the bottom, and like Nintendo's number two at the time, the old president's son-in-law Arakawa Minoru, the biggest contributor to the establishment of Nintendo in North America, actually proposed to sell the game business to Microsoft, and there was a group of supporters.

This remark finally made Yamauchi unbearable with Arakawa Minoru and kicked him out of Nintendo, and then let Satoshi Iwata, who was only a minister at the time, take over the position of president of Nintendo.

Was it a very risky move to take over the management of one of the greatest businesses in the world of video games with a nobody?

Can he?

It turns out that Satoshi Iwata is really the kind of person who can turn the tide and help the building to collapse, and the sales miracle of WII and NDS has made Nintendo answer the ranks of the Big Three again, and the key role played by Satoshi Iwata in it can be said to be crucial.

It's a pity that it was he who died young.

Thinking about it, Jester made another call to the organizing committee, and in the phone, Jester wanted them to contact Satoshi Iwata, and if the other party had time tomorrow, he wanted to meet with the other party and talk about some game development matters, and moreover, it was done as a game designer and game designer.

Actually, Jester still has some ideas about the HAL Institute.

Since no one wants to take over this institute now, then he will take it, in the original history, the HAL research institute, before it was reorganized by Nintendo, did lack too famous works.

However, in the original history of 91 years, Nintendo reorganized the HAL Research Institute and incorporated it into its own subsidiary, after Iwata Satoshi became the director of the HAL Research Institute at that time, the HAL Research Institute really entered a product blowout period, at that time they made many classic games, the most famous may be 20 years later, "Kirby the Star" and "Nintendo Star Smash Bros.

Both games, like Balloon Wars, were designed by Satoshi Iwata when he was still a designer.

The next day, after a long night's sleep, Satoshi Iwata, who finally recovered from exhaustion and jet lag, received a notice from the GDC organizing committee. Lee, hoping to have dinner with him later, and, Jester. Li also hopes that the two sides will have a discussion about game development between designers and designers.

When Satoshi Iwata first received this notification, he thought he was having auditory hallucinations.

His eyes widened, his mouth wide open, and he asked again in disbelief, and then, after getting the same answer as before, he realized that what he had just heard was true.

"Jester. Lee's personal reception? ”

"Could it be that the one who invited me to GDC was Jester. Plum? ”

"But, Jester. How could Lee have known about me, a nobody? It stands to reason that there is no reason for me to be noticed by such a big man? ”

Iwata Satoshi's mind became chaotic again, he couldn't imagine how he was noticed by such a big man anyway, his most famous thing is the "Balloon War" on FC, but this game in his opinion, is still a little young and naïve, there is no way to keep up with those of the same era, Jester. Lee's great works are on par.

The meeting time is at eight o'clock in the evening.

Because Jester has to deal with a lot of things for the other party these days, he can only find a little time to meet at eight o'clock, but despite what, Jester still arranges a full hour for the meeting, which is extremely rare.

Even, even Jester's assistant was a little confused, so they couldn't see that this little-known Japanese was worthy of his boss to spend an hour to meet him? You know, Ellison, the president of Oracle, wanted to meet with Jester, and Jester had only taken half an hour at the time. R1152